Gary Atkins

Dec 9, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Gary Atkins

Dateline: September, 1999…. I was asleep in my hotel room, somewhere in small-town Alberta when the phone rang. I answered,“What do you want!?” It was Monson, our booking agent. “What are you doing, Gary?”“Well, I was sleeping, but it’s okay, I had to get up to answer the ‘——-‘ phone! What do you want?”“Do you want to take the boys up to Whitehorse to open a club for a month? Now I am awake! I sat bolt upright in bed and said, “Hell yeah Wayne, when does this happen?”.

Oct 10, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Gary Atkins

As the termination dust starts to settle on the mountains and slowly work its way down, it’s my annual reminder of all of those things I intended to do but never quite got around to this past summer. Cleaning out the carport, cleaning out the shed(s), cleaning out the storage rooms in the house, etc. “There is a season, turn, turn, turn.”Do you see a pattern here? I’m going to blame it on the Oilers. Yeah, that’s it! I’ve been an Oilers fan since I was a little kid.